Track Listing

1. Shine
2. Late Night Radio
3. Coming Down
4. Birds Without Wings
5. Light
6. Everytime
7. Century Ends
8. Lullaby
9. Faster Sooner Now
10. Wisdom
11. Falling Free
12. Sell Sell Sell
13. Debauchery
14. Flesh
15. Hold On To Nothing

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7825 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-26
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
This is not the first collection of David Gray's "pre-success" recordings, but it is the best one. Unlike many such collections of early works by noted artists, you're not seeing the artist's abilities in their infant state--each of these 15 songs is already great. The Mancunian musician's performing abilities were well developed by the time he first recorded in the early '90s; one might even argue that they sound best in the often stripped-down, more raw state on display here. The songs themselves, however, have definitely matured since Gray hit the alt-adult-contemporary big time with the electronica-tinged White Ladder in 2000; such songs as "Wisdom" and "Birds Without Wings" do show the marks of other singer-songers (notably Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan). These days, of course, David Gray is himself often used as an adjective, to describe all the other scruffy-bearded blue-eyed songsters reaching for the sensitive crooner's crown. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews

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well nothing can ever beat the famous Babyon etc. however this album has a certain edge to it. you wouldn't be wasting your money by getting this album.